Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

I'm a cynical idealist.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.